The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and MIT will co-host “Big Data and Privacy: Advancing the State of the Art in Technology and Practice” on March 3. The daylong event will include keynotes from White House Counselor John Podesta and Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, along with panels and roundtable discussions. Meanwhile, more than a dozen advocacy groups have written a letter to the White House asking it to craft legislation that would put teeth into the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights. The groups argue industry self-regulation is not working and an opt-out framework as it exists “forces consumers to check their privacy settings every time a company changes its business model.”
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